Literary studies: general books

315635 books were found.

Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje

Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays...

Author: Robert Lecker
ISBN: 9780228018766
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the...  Read More >>

Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy

Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations...

Author: Cathy Yue Wang
ISBN: 9780814348628
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honoured fantastical texts and tales which were founded...  Read More >>

Thoreau’s Botany: Thinking and Writing with Plants

Thoreau’s Botany: Thinking and Writing with Plants

Author: James Perrin Warren
ISBN: 9780813949482
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Bringing together critical plant studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, James Perrin Warren argues...  Read More >>

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation,...

Author: Amanda Kennell ,  Allison Alexy
ISBN: 9780824894443
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into...  Read More >>

Rereading Modernist Postcards: Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery

Rereading Modernist Postcards: Critical Studies in Materialist...

Author: Bradley D. Clissold
ISBN: 9781032457246
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Using both new and old media theory, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected...  Read More >>

Ancient, Medieval, and Premodern Korean Songs and Poems: An Historical Anthology, With Parallel Texts in Korean and English

Ancient, Medieval, and Premodern Korean Songs and Poems:...

Author: Sung-il Lee (Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul) ,  Literature Translation Institute of Korea
ISBN: 9781802700404
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Translated anthology of vernacular Korean classical poetry from antiquity to the mid-Choseon Dynasty (ca. 1600),...  Read More >>

Children’s Literature and Old Norse Medievalism

Children’s Literature and Old Norse Medievalism

Author: David Clark (London College of Music)
ISBN: 9781641894944
Format: Hardback
$356.40

This book explores the ways contemporary authors respond to and transform key aspects of Old Norse history and viking...  Read More >>

Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind

Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming...

Author: Ayad Rahmani
ISBN: 9780807179802
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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Writing the Twilight: The Arabic Poetics of Ageing in Medieval Sicily and Al-Andalus

Writing the Twilight: The Arabic Poetics of Ageing in...

Author: Nicola Carpentieri
ISBN: 9782503600536
Format: Hardback
$232.32

In the eleventh century, as Muslim sovereignty in the Western Mediterranean was eroded by both internal divisions...  Read More >>

Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation

Author: Joey Kim
ISBN: 9781399511254
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Confronts the racial and ethnic logics of the Oriental subject undergirding the development of Romantic poetics...  Read More >>

Understanding Margaret Atwood

Understanding Margaret Atwood

Author: Donna M. Bickford
ISBN: 9781643364469
Format: Hardback
$303.57

Provides an overview of Margaret Attwood’s life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most...  Read More >>

Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms

Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms

Author: Elizabeth Blake (Clark University)
ISBN: 9781009321228
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Edible Arrangements brings a formalist approach to the intersection of queer theory, modernist studies, and food...  Read More >>

Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth

Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth...

Author: Ian Garner ,  Daniel Henning
ISBN: 9798212948548
Format: Audio
$121.31

A disturbing portrait of the fascist youth movements warping Russian society and politics.  Read More >>

Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin

Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin

Author: Roman Utkin
ISBN: 9780299344405
Format: Hardback
$263.87

By closely examining the intellectual output of Charlottengrad, Roman Utkin explores how community members balanced...  Read More >>

Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth

Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth...

Author: Ian Garner ,  Daniel Henning
ISBN: 9798212948531
Format: Audio
$124.05

A disturbing portrait of the fascist youth movements warping Russian society and politics.  Read More >>

Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the...

Author: Michael J. Collins
ISBN: 9781474456722
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to Don Delillo and the Arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Don Delillo and the Arts...

Author: Catherine Gander
ISBN: 9781474499903
Format: Hardback
$388.12

The first book to comprehensively address Don DeLillo's deep and lasting engagement with the arts across the entirety...  Read More >>

The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot

The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot...

Author: Kevin A. Morrison
ISBN: 9781399516082
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Considers the interrelated careers of three significant nineteenth-century writers who have never been extensively...  Read More >>

L'Erotisme Dans La Litterature Espagnole Du Xvie Siecle: Etude Des Continuations de la Celestine

L'Erotisme Dans La Litterature Espagnole Du Xvie Siecle:...

Author: Francois-Xavier Guerry
ISBN: 9782406150978
Format: Hardback
$295.68

This book explores eroticism in the six sequels (1534-1560s) of Fernando de Rojas' (1499-1502) La Celestina, a true...  Read More >>

Le Sentier de l'Exemple: Morales Des Histoires Tragiques (1559-1630)

Le Sentier de l'Exemple: Morales Des Histoires Tragiques...

Author: Thibault Catel
ISBN: 9782406151104
Format: Hardback
$298.32

In a context of effervescent exemplarity, the histoires tragiques (1559-1630) use multiple exemplary devices and...  Read More >>

Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence

Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More...

Author: Eric Adler
ISBN: 9780826222909
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential...  Read More >>

William Morris on Socialism: Uncollected Essays

William Morris on Socialism: Uncollected Essays

Author: William Morris ,  Florence Boos
ISBN: 9781474458085
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Presents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decades.  Read More >>

Bogle Corbet: Or the Emigrants

Bogle Corbet: Or the Emigrants

Author: John Galt ,  Katie Trumpener
ISBN: 9781474449465
Format: Hardback
$245.81

The first scholarly edition of Bogle Corbet  Read More >>

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